WSJ Photos: Keeping Warm While Gripping Handlebars

Just walking around the city has been bone-chilling this winter. Keeping digits warm while gripping handlebars all day requires some extra creativity.

Deliverymen and commuters on bicycles and motorbikes have devised creative ways to keep their fingers from freezing, which photographer Cassandra Giraldo chronicled for The Journal. Above, mismatched mittens adorn a bike on Tuesday, as another arctic cold front was set to bring more frigid conditions to New York.

Cassandra Giraldo for The Wall Street Journal

Heavy duty gloves stand at the ready on a motorbike in front of an Indian restaurant in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Cassandra Giraldo for The Wall Street Journal

A delivery man rides his bike in Chinatown on Tuesday.

Cassandra Giraldo for The Wall Street Journal

A bike in the West Village sports plastic bags with the words “thank you.”